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The New York Times ran a piece this Sunday featuring Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth . Though a majority of the piece was biographical, and the rest wasn't exactly the picture of accuracy in its portrayal of Ubuntu (or Linux in general), there were a few interesting figures.
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Canonical's $30 Million and Redmond's Gathering Storm
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... Behind Microsoft's Anti-Linux Campaign." Nothing like a chilling blast of fresh scrutiny to take the wind out of a software behemoth's sails! Canonical's Millions Perhaps most intriguing of all, however, was the recent New York Times article in which Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth said his company's annual revenue is approaching US$30 million -- the figure he says it needs to be self-sustaining. That happy fact was picked up on Digg , OStatic and Slashdot , where more than 600 comments followed when bloggers pondered the ...
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